Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

[James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Sorry, I wasn't clear in the previous email; I did try the card= option 
anyway.  I wrote a looping script and tested first 70 card= options, and 
none worked properly for streaming capture.  Some did show different 
behavior though.  I might try the remaining 50 later today.

I did notice one strange thing though; the card= option is only applied 
to the first bttv card.  All remaining cards in the system are still 
autodetected (which ends up assuming card=0 in my case).  Not sure if 
this is the intended behavior or not, since someone really could run two 
different bttv cards in the same system.

  - Jim Bruce

Paulo Marques wrote:
> James Bruce wrote:
> 
>> [...]
>> The card= option didn't help in my case since my card is not in the 
>> list; For thess cards we went off the reccomendation of other people 
>> doing machine vision in Linux; Next time I guess we'll go name brand 
>> again...
> 
> 
> I think you should try it anyway, using all the options, because it is 
> very likely that your card might be compatible with one of the listed 
> ones. This is specially true if you don't care about the tuner.
> 
> Just modprobe the bttv module with card=X option, test it, rmmod it, 
> modprobe it again with card=X+1, etc., until you find a number that fits.